336 KENNEL DISEASES. 
For puppies of all varieties of medium size, as collies, the dose should be 
increased by one-half a teaspoonful every second month until the sixteenth 
month has been passed; that is, commencing about the fourth with one tea- 
spoonful, or sixteen grains; after the sixth month it should be one teaspoonful 
and one-half; the eighth, two teaspoonfuls ; the tenth, two and one-half; the 
twelfth, three; the fourteenth, three and one-half; the sixteenth, four ; and 
this should be the dose thereafter. 
In adjusting the doses for the largest breeds the same method of increase 
should be instituted ; that is, commencing with one teaspoonful after the fourth 
month, if this dose is increased by one-half a teaspoonful every second month, 
in the sixteenth it will be the same as for medium-size breeds. But the in- 
crease should be persisted in, and in the same ratio, until after maturity ; 
which is scarcely reached before the twenty-fourth month. In other words 
the dose after the eighteenth month will be four and one-half teaspoonfuls ; 
the twentieth, five; the twenty-second, five and one-half; and the twenty- 
fourth, six. 
The reader is reminded that the basis of these estimates is an even tea- 
spoonful. 
The doses recommended are of moderate and even small size, that they 
who direct treatment may be within the safety lines always. It is true that 
larger doses might often be given without harmful results, but when the 
patient is a puppy it is certainly better to give a fairly small dose and repeat 
on the following day if necessary, than rely on a single large dose. 
When giving areca nut to quite young puppies the best medium is milk; 
but the quantity should not be more than a tablespoonful, for everything in the 
way of medicine must be poured down their throats. 
For puppies more than six months old, also for mature dogs, this worm- : 
destroyer is best given in the form of a bolus or large pill, which is made as 
follows : j 
Place the required quantity of powder on a plate and drop onto it two or 
three drops of molasses. After mixing thoroughly by means of the tip of a 
table-knife, take up the entire mass on the end of the knife and dip it into dry 
wheat flour. Now remove it with the fingers and roll it into a ball, using more 
flour as necessary to prevent it sticking to them during the operation. 
When the subjects are old enough to catch and gulp a piece of meat, a 
convenient method of giving the powder is to envelop it in a very thin slice 
or shaving of meat, and toss it to the patient after he has been teased in like 
way with a few such toothsome morsels. 
If the dose to be given is large, it will be advisable to divide it and use 
several small slices of meat, rather than a single large one. 
Allowing one or two hours for the powder to do its work on the worms, 
the intestinal canal should then be swept out, as it were, by means of a cathar- 
